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Julie Moore

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Julie Moore is an ELT materials writer and lexicographer based in Bristol, UK. After teaching in Greece, Czechia and the UK, she became fascinated by vocabulary and trained to work on learner’s dictionaries. Alongside her work as an ELT lexicographer, she’s co-authored various vocabulary-focused books, including ETpedia Vocabulary (Pavilion, 2019) and Oxford Academic Vocabulary Practice (OUP, 2017). She also regularly spends far too long researching vocab queries that come up on social media — Email: julie@juleswords.co.uk

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Understanding how words work

This article looks at two areas, parts of speech and lexicogrammar, which provide a foundation for the basic analysis skills learners need to make sense of new language.

10 new words in 10 years of ETpedia

This year we’re celebrating the 10th anniversary of the ETpedia series and it’s 5 years since the publication of ETpedia Vocabulary. Here, Julie Moore looks back at some of the new words and shifts in language that we’ve seen over the past decade, and picks out ten words that she thinks exemplify some of the trends.

Idioms in ELT: the icing on the cake or something to steer clear of?

There are three distinct aspects of an English idiom. They are fixed expressions with a meaning which is not always obvious. They also have quite a complex meaning which is understood by a certain group.